It was reported that a patient experienced ataxia and had visited the er regarding this following a vns generator replacement surgery.
The attending neurologist did not believe this incident to be related to vns and further added that the patient had subclinical seizures and not ataxia.
Additional information was received stating that the exact time when patient began having the subclinical seizures is unknown and that it was presumed to be sometime after the vns generator replacement surgery.
The subclinical seizures were reported to be a new type of seizure for patient.
There were no recent medication changes and the only other change was the vns generator replacement.
An assessment on the relation of subclinical seizures to vns therapy could not be provided.
An eeg was performed and night time aed dosage was increased as interventions.
Patient also started physical therapy for gait issues.
Patient outcome was reported to be good as far as physician knew.